GROSSE POINTE AND BEYOND
An Unexpected Life: A Family Chronicle
Tom Van Lokeren
GROSSE POINTE AND BEYOND
An Unexpected Life: A Family Chronicle
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Contents
Underlined chapters are live links
On Peche Island
Passed Away in a 45 Room Mansion on Lake St. Clair
Round & Round & Round You Go Sister
Love At First Sight with a Chicago Bull
Some Never Had a Chance
The Cost of Cruisin’
Measure of Last Resort
Names Everyone Knew
A Magic Kingdom
with Osama bin Laden
A Vigilante Accountant
Just One Good Opportunity
Four Months of Silence
The Quiet Erasure of Two American Beer Families
Clue: Once Married to Elizabeth Taylor
An Adventure into Extreme Psychotherapy
Future chapters coming in May 2026
“Sitting on Tens of Millions”
Brotherly Love — The 71 Dollar Sendoff at 95 Lakeshore to Fight a Corporate Polluter with Deep Pockets
HARBOR SPRINGS, MICHIGAN
“He was hunting for big game….”
Trolling from the Bluff up at Harbor Springs
“From Six Packs and Cases of Beer to the Boardroom of an International Company”
The Masco Appointment — Good Work if You Can Get It
“The Temporary Restraining Order on the Publication of this Book”
A Costly Assault on the First Amendment and a Brazen, Overreach Driven by Desperation
“How could this have happened?”
The Building & The Brotherly Betrayal
“Rooms for Reinvention”
Uncle Tom’s Hotel Varennes
“Black and Blue from a Purple Heart”
The Joann Powers Story – A Senior Living Facility Turned Prison – Part Two
“Taking Care of Our Own”
Charlie
“Losing Jenny”
The Making of a San Francisco Princess
“Never Leave a Diary Out”
Complete Meltdown In Martha’s Vineyard
“Unconditional”
The Namesake